If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.